ancient Greek
Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic p ...
origin, derived from κόρη (''korē'') meaning "girl, maiden".κόρη
''Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon'' Other variants include
Corina
Corina is a female given name of ancient Greek origin, derived from κόρη (''korē'') meaning "girl, maiden".Corinne.
People with the name
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Corinna
Corinna or Korinna ( grc, Κόριννα, Korinna) was an ancient Greek lyric poet from Tanagra in Boeotia. Although ancient sources portray her as a contemporary of Pindar (born ), not all modern scholars accept the accuracy of this traditio ...
or Korinna, ancient Greek poet
Corinna
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Corinna Adam
Corinna Jane Adam (31 January 1937 – 8 March 2012), also known by her married name Corinna Ascherson, was a British journalist, particularly for the ''New Statesman'', ''The Guardian'', and ''The Observer''. According to her obituary in ''The ...
or Ascherson (1937–2012), British journalist
* S. Corinna Bille (1912–1979), Swiss writer in French
* Corinna Boccacini (born 1985), Italian snowboarder
* Corinna Chamberlain (born 1982), New Zealand-Hong Kong singer and actress
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Corinne Cléry
Corinne Cléry (born 23 March 1950), also known as Corinne Piccolo, is a French actress. She is known for the films ''Moonraker'' (1979), '' The Story of O'' (1975), ''Hitch-Hike'' (1977) and ''Yor, the Hunter from the Future'' (1983).
Early l ...
(born 1950), French actress
* Corinna Cortes, Danish computer scientist
* Corinna Dentoni (born 1989), Italian tennis player
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Corinna Everson
Corinna "Cory" Everson (née Kneuer; born January 4, 1958) is an American female bodybuilding champion and actress. Everson won the Ms. Olympia contest six years in a row from 1984 to 1989.
Education
Corinna Kneuer was born in Racine, Wiscons ...
(née Kneuer) (born 1958), American bodybuilder champion and actress
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Corinna Folkins
Corinna Helen Folkins née MacDonald (1918-1998), was a United States international lawn bowler.
Bowls career World Championships
Folkins won a bronze medal at the 1977 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing, in the triples event with Dorot ...
(née MacDonald) (1918-1998), United States lawn bowler
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Corinna Genest
Corinna Genest (born August 16, 1938) is a German film and television actress.Cowie p.158 She is the daughter of the actress Gudrun Genest and the great niece of Hubert von Meyerinck.
Selected filmography
* '' Stage Fright'' (1960)
* '' Always ...
(born 1938), German film and television actress
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Corinna Halke
Corinna Halke-Teichmann (born 9 July 1957 in Dortmund) is a German former pair skater and current sport journalist.
With partner Eberhard Rausch, she is the 1974–1976 German national champion. They competed five times at the European Figure ...
(born 1957), German sports journalist and skater
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Corinna Harfouch
Corinna Harfouch (; née Meffert; 16 October 1954) is a German actress.
Life and work
Harfouch was born in Suhl, East Germany, the daughter of the teacher Wolfgang Meffert and his wife Marianne (née Kleber). She worked as a nurse and stud ...
(née Meffert) (born 1954), German actress
* Corinna Harney (born 1972), American model and actress
* Corinna Harrer (born 1991), German middle distance runner
* Corinna Hawkes, British professor of Food Policy
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Corinna Hein
Corinna Hein born Corinna Biethan (born 6 February 1983) is a German indoor cyclist. She has been World Artistic cycling Champion five times and the German champion seven times (2016).
Life
Hein was born in Achern in 1983. From 2002 to 2007 Cori ...
(née Biethan) (born 1983), German indoor cyclist
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Corinna Kennedy
Corrina Kennedy (born November 30, 1970 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s. She won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m and K-4 200 ...
(born 1970), Canadian sprint canoer
* Corinna Kopf (born 1995 ), American YouTuber and gamer
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Corinna Kunze
Corinna Kunze (born 7 October 1963) is a German handball player who played for the West German national team. She was born in Dortmund. She represented West Germany at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Án ...
(born 1963), German handball player
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Corinna E. Lathan
Corinna E. Lathan is an American entrepreneur, engineer, and social activist. She is the Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder, and Board Chair of AnthroTronix, Inc., a biomedical research and development company headquartered in Silver Spring, Ma ...
, American entrepreneur
* Corinna Lawrence (born 1990), British épée fencer
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Corinna Lechner
Corinna Lechner (born 10 August 1994) is a German racing cyclist, who currently rides for Dutch amateur team MEXX–Watersley International. She rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships.
Major results
;2021
: 2nd Mixed team relay, Europe ...
(born 1994), German racing cyclist
* Corinna Lin (born 1994), Taiwanese-American figure skater
* Corinna Lingnau (born 1960), German field hockey player
* Corinna Löckenhoff, German psychologist and gerontologist
* Corinna Kuhnle (née 1987), Austrian slalom canoeist
* Corinna Martini (born 1985), German luger
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Corinna May
Corinna May (born 6 October 1970 in Bremen, Germany as Corinna Meyer) is a blind singer from Germany. She is best known for competing in the 2002 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "I Can't Live Without Music".
Career
From an early age she ...
(née Meyer) (born 1970), German singer
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Corinna Miazga
Corinna Miazga ( Kracke; 17 May 1983 – 25 February 2023) was a German politician. Representing Alternative for Germany (AfD), Miazga served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria from 2017 until her death in 2023.
Life and car ...
(born 1983), German politician
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Corinna Mura
Corinna Mura (born Corinna Wall; March 16, 1910 – August 1, 1965) was a cabaret singer, actress, and diseuse. She had a small role in the classic film ''Casablanca'' as the woman playing the guitar while singing "Tango Delle Rose" and ...
(née Wall) (1910–1965), American cabaret singer, diseuse, and film actress
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Corinna von Rad
Corinna von Rad (born 1971) is a German-American opera and theatre director.
Biography
Von Rad was born in 1971 in New York City. She descends from a patrician family. She studied musical theatre directing at the Hochschule für Musik und Theat ...
(born 1971), German-American opera director
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Corinna Rüffer
Corinna Rüffer (born 11 October 1975) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2013.
Early life and education
Born in Osnabrück, Lower Sa ...
Corinna S. Schindler
Corinna S. Schindler is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan. She develops catalytic reactions with environmentally benign metals such as iron, towards the synthesis of biologically active small molecules. For her research in th ...
, University of Michigan faculty
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Corinna Schnitt
Corinna Schnitt (born in 1964) is a German filmmaker, artist, and professor. Her films, which are experimental in nature, have been presented in a variety of festivals, solo and group exhibitions at diverse international venues. Since 2009, she h ...
(born 1964), German filmmaker, artist, and professor
* Corinna Scholz (born 1989), German curler
* Corinna Schumacher, née Betsch (born 1969), German animal rights activist, wife of racing driver Michael Schumacher
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Corinna Schwab
Corinna Schwab (born 5 April 1999) is a German athlete. She competed in the women's 400 metres event at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships
The 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held from 4 to 7 March 2021 at the A ...
(born 1999), German sprinter
* Corinna Shattuck (1848–1910), American educator and missionary in Turkey
* Corinna Putnam Smith (née Corinna Haven Putnam) (1876–1965), American writer, amateur archaeologist, scholar of Arabic
* Corinna Tsopei (born 1944), American Olympic judoka
* Corinna Ulcigrai (born 1980), Italian mathematician
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Corinna West
Corinna West (née Corinna Broz and also known as Corinna Broz-West ) is an American retired judoka and Olympian. She competed at the 1996 Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 19 ...
, American Olympic judoka
* Cori Zarek, media lawyer
Korinna
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Korinna Fink
Korinna Fink (born 6 April 1981 in Teterow) is a German sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.
She finished sixth in 2005 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, 4 x 400 m relay at the 2005 World Championships in A ...
*Corinna, Ovid's (probably fictitious) lover in the '' Amores''
*Corinna, pen name of English poet Elizabeth Thomas (1675–1731)
Fictional characters
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Corinna Chapman
Kerry Isabelle Greenwood (born 1954) is an Australian author and lawyer. She has written many plays and books, most notably a string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher, which was adapted as the popular tele ...
, series of mysteries written by Kerry Greenwood
* '' Corinna Schmidt'', 1951 East German drama film
* '' Beloved Corinna'', 1956 German drama film
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Corinna Wiles
''Drive'' is an American action drama television series created by Tim Minear and Ben Queen, produced by Minear, Queen, and Greg Yaitanes, and starring Nathan Fillion. Four episodes aired on the Fox Network in April 2007. Two unaired episod ...
, character in the 2007 TV series ''Drive''
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Corrine, Corrina
"Corrine, Corrina" (sometimes "Corrina, Corrina") is a 12-bar country blues song in the AAB form. "Corrine, Corrina" was first recorded by Bo Carter ( Brunswick 7080, December 1928). However, it was not copyrighted until 1932 by Armenter "Bo Cart ...